Muslim education in Uganda springs from Kibuli, a Kampala suburb, an area that had been allotted to Prince Nuhu Mbogo by the British following the 1900 Agreement.

Prince Mbogo, the son of Ssekabaka Suuna II was a leader of the Muslim community, and was commonly referred to as 'Kabaka for the Muslims'.  

By William Odinga Balikuddembe

Bill Gates and Herbert Lwanga have two things in common; both are innovators and entrepreneurs. However, the two also contrast sharply; one is American, rich, famous. The other is Ugandan, broke, with a long journey to walk.

While in 2001 Gates was in New York launching a new Operating System, Windows XP, declaring that "this is a version of Windows that will take the PC industry to new heights," Lwanga was in Kampala begging government to fund his ideas.

Aged 21 then and pursuing a diploma in electrical and electronic engineering at Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo, Lwanga was able to convince the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) to give him Ushs 5m to make four things: a proximity alarm, a level detector, a pulse detector and a remote control switch. He succeeded in making the items.

The year 2012 marks the centenary of birth of President  KIM IL SUNG, a distinguished man of the 20th century.

President KIM IL SUNG, founding father of socialist Korea, was born on April 15, 1912, into a poor peasant family at Mangyongdae in Pyongyang. In those days Korea was under the military occupation of Japanese imperialism (1905-1945).

KIM IL SUNG was educated in patriotism by his parents and was under their revolutionary influence from his early years. It was in his teens, early 1925, when he left his native motherland with a resolute determination not to return before Korea became independent.

A committee of eminent scientists that was set up to develop a national strategy on adoption of genetically modified crops